Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-12

hey murder Them Because they dared to
70 dissatisfied with the lot your oppressors
,ave assigned to them. They demanded
,read and they gave them lead for an an
wer, mindful OF the fact that thus people
ire most effectively silenced. You have for
ion without protest; have drudged from
,arly in the morning till late at night; have
uttered all sorts of privations, have even
acrificed your children You have done
to fill the Golfers of your
.1S .DS impiore msm fSe them app'1a1k % make your
burden little lighter, as a reward for your
sacrifices they send you their bloodhounds
the police-at you In order to cure you
with bullets, of your dissatisfaction. Slaves,
we ak aud conjure you by all that Is sa'
cred and dear to you, avenge the atroclons
murder which has been committed on your
brothers to-day. and which will likely De
upon you tomorrow. Laporlng
men, Hercules, you have arrived at the cross,
way. How will you decide? for slavery ana
hunger or for freedom and breadY II you
decide for the latter then DO not uelay
moment; then, people, to arms! 1his niust @
be your motto. Think of the heroes wh3se ,is
blood has fertilized the road to progress, I'D
erty and humanity, and to strive and be-
come worthy OF them.
Neebe and other notables of the l.
A. A. took horses, and in person scat
tered the circular broadcast, not fail.
ing to leave copies with the rank and
file of the International "armed sec.
tions" gathering in Greif's Hall, "a
West Lake street. That the circular
gave the impulse to the action of the
armed sections at this Monday night
meeting, and inspired the adoption
of
THE PLAN OF BOMB-THowING
Agreed upon, is apparent from the
fact that its contents were first fully
discussed. Then the complete de-
tailed plan of the particular method
of inaugurating the wholesale murder
for which they originally organized
was formally considered and adopted,
the time for the slaughter being lett for
the Arbeifer Zeitung to designate by
publishing the signal word "ruhe"
(peace). This latter feature was the
work of Adolph Fischer. who had
come to the meeting straight from the
Arbeiter Zeitung, where he had been
assisting Spies and Schwab. That
Fischer was carrying out the plans oil
his superiOrs appears more clearly
from the circumstances that it was
he who
MANEUvRED THE EARNED SECTIONS"
Out of their idea of holding the
meeting in the morning
instead of at night, as Spies and the
other leaders had decided.
A darker picture is not to be found
in history than this spectacle of four
score murderous conspirators in the
saloon basement, remorse-
fully plotting the massacre that oc-
Cured not hundred yards distant,
before another midnight passed.
Rudolph Schnaubelt, the thrower of
the Haymarket bomb, was among the
eighty or more assassins who COM
posed this horrible meeting. Though
did not come till long
after eleven it was not
7 O'Clock next morning,
Tuesday, when Louis Lingg, mem
Der of the identical EARNED section"
opened the chest of dynamite that
had lain untouched in his lodgings
since four days before. Under his
expert directions, six of the men who
the murder meeting of the
previous night, quickly set to work
then and there filling globular shells
with dynamite.
Early as was the hour, Fischer was
also at work getting out the handbills
calling the Haymarket mass-meeting.
The handbill's last words were:
"Workingmen, Arm yourselves and
appear in full force !'' What Spies,
Schwab and the other leaders were
doing that day may be partly inferred
from the
BURNING APPEALS FOR ASSISTANCE
And calls "To Arms 7" that appeared
in their newspaper organs that even
ing. "Ruhe," penned by Spies own
hand, stared out of the Arbeiter lei
tung. Alter the pa :ers were off and
their editors had swallowed hasty
supper, it is known that Spies, Par
sons, Schwab, Fielden, Fischer and
other ruling spirits, mostly members
Of the self-same EARNED sections" that
held the Greif's Hall conclave, went
into close session at the International
headquarters in the Arbeiter Zeitung
building, where reports by messenger
and telephone were received as the
sped.
Lingg's crew Of bomb-makers were
still assiduously at work. For some
reason he himself was unable to re-
main with them all the time, and the
evening found him cursing their slow
progress. 1t was some time after 2 80
P. M.-the hour mentioned for the
Haymarket meeting to begin-when
Lingg put into a little trunk what
bombs were ready-some fifty or sixty
and started with his burden for the
appointed rendezvous, an Anarchists
saloon near by, known as Netf's Hall,
SO Claybourn avenue. He was met
on the way by messenger who had
come to hurry him along. The trunk
was left open in passage-way OF the
saloon, and without more ado men
began dropping in quietly, alone or in
couples.
PoCKETING A BOMB OR TWO
Each and vanishing into the dark
ness. This celerity may have some
what Modified Lingg, but his delay
was not the only stumbling-block of
the reds.
twenty-five thousand people, the
leaders estimated, would be
gathered together in the Haymarket.
This was not an extravagant expecta-
ton, when $4,000 had been 80 easily
massed near McCormick's. But fear
of further rioting kept pretty much
everybody at home except about 2O00